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Peter Collier is an author who often collaborated on his boooks with David Horowitz. Together they co-wrote books about dynasty families like: The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty (1976), The Kennedys: An American Drama (1984) and The Fords: An American Epic (1987), and in 1994 Collier published näytä lisää The Roosevelts: An American Saga, with Horowitz contributing. In addition, Collier wrote a novel, Down River (1979); a children's book, The King's Giraffe (with his wife, 1996); and books honoring military figures like Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty (2003). During the 1960s and '70s, Collier and Horowitz worked together on the New Left journal Ramparts, but "made a 180-degree turn and began writing books and articles from the conservative side of the spectrum. Their 1989 book, Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties, attacked what they perceived to be the nostalgia that had grown up around that decade. In 1998, Collier founded Encounter Books, which has published a range of authors, many of them conservative. Peter Collier passed away on November 1, 2019 from leukemia. He was 80 years old. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän

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This book is astonishing, really. A non-physicist decided to teach himself relativity theory, using some text books and the full range of publicly available online resources. That's no mean feat. But then he did something really brave - arguably crazy as all truly brave acts are - and wrote a book for other people who are attempting to do the same thing.

If you've followed my status updates you might be thinking it's just a catalogue of errors but that would not be fair; most of the mistakes I found are simple slip-ups, probably typos in several cases. That type of thing occurs alarmingly often even in texts by professionals that have been checked by professionals. The trouble here is that they may cause more trouble for the intended audience than they would for people with considerable mathematical/scientific training.

More worrying are the small number of errors that show lack of understanding of the physics and/or maths, as these are likely to confuse and mislead the intended audience. I suggest that readers keep an eye on the online errata page, which the author has successively updated in the light of reader comments.

I feel that anyone without a physics degree but wanting to learn relativity theory in all its mathematical glory should read [b:Relativity: The Special and the General Theory|15852|Relativity The Special and the General Theory|Albert Einstein|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1420607613s/15852.jpg|2638443] before attempting this book and perhaps following up with a professional introductory text on the General Theory if sufficient interest remains.
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Arbieroo | 1 muu arvostelu | Jul 17, 2020 |
A most excellent book! Takes you literally from A-level maths through tensors and differential geometry and special relativity to general relativity and cosmology. A gave it a quick read first time, and found it enormously helpful in giving me a basic understanding of tensor algebra and Einstein's field equations. I plan to go back and study it more thoroughly. A very accessible book, and probably as accessible as it gets when it comes to differential geometry. Well done Peter Collier!
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